[ARC5] Speaking of Conelrad

[JAMES FALLS]

This thread really takes be back to my child- and young adulthood growing up under The Bomb. 

I have a variety of 50’s and 60’s All-American Fives with the CD marks on some of the dials. So glad they were never used under wartime conditions. 

I heard, years later in the mid-90’s, that the SF Bay Area was #3 on the Soviet Hit Parade because of its shipping, tech, refineries, military bases, Naval weapons station. Was this BS or not? 

Jim Falls K6FWT 

> On Mar 10, 2024, at 17:36, drossetti at comcast.net wrote:
> 
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> Speaking of Conelrad, one of the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club (MAARC) members put together a presentation on CONELRAD for one of their monthly meetings. The presentation can be found on this page of the MAARC website: https://maarc.org/monthly-meetings-slides/
>  
> Dave Rossetti
> 410-279-0226 (Mobile)
>  
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Robert Nickels
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2024 12:33 PM
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Speaking of Conelrad-
>  
> On 3/10/2024 9:17 AM, releazer at earthlink.net wrote:
> I don't know about that but there used to be the Ground  Wave Emergency 
> Network, a network of LF transmission stations that were designed to 
> provide digital communications after everything else went down.  They 
> were located in rural areas that enabled them to be linked to key 
> military installations.
> I remember being interested in GWEN when it was announced, and later found one of the sites was along US-30 in eastern Iowa which I travel often.   I drove up to the gate and took a look but not much to see but equipment buildings and the tower.   Then a few years ago I couldn't find it, and recent Google Maps imagery confirmed that it was gone.  The location at US-30 and Indian Rd. just east of Mechanicsville IA has been returned to farmland.
> 
> Here are side-by-side satellite images from Google Earth that confirm this happened between June 2014 and March 2016:
> 
> https://i.imgur.com/slqqbD5.png
> 
> I've read that a partial GWEN network call the Thin Line Connectivity Capability (TLCC) was completed, which consisted of 8 input/output stations, 30 receive-only stations, and 54 relay nodes.  It provided "a limited level of HEMP-protected communications to strategic forces and the National Commany Authority".
> 
> Evidently no longer needed...(?)
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN
> 
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